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And pleasure for the rest of the year we have made
SPECIAL HOLIDAY PRICES,
, ??od until New Year's Bay, on new
FACTORY SAMPLE PIANOS.
$125, $150, $175, $200.
Handsome oases, best quality tone and mater'.?.!, fully war
nutted.
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jonis on easy terms at lowest possible prices.
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CITY OF ANDERSON.
3 vacant Lots on Greenville etreot..
3 House) ?nd Lot on North Fant st.
3 House and Lot on Franklin at.
S vacant Lot Main at.
Othes Lots in various localities.
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350 acres, improved.
PENDLETON TOWN8HIP.
i? seres, with fi?room dwelling ?nd out?
Boones. . > v 'V i .
360 sores, pertly in cultivation.
33? seres, two-story dwelling, barns
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r CENTREVILLE TOWNSHIP.
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lift scree, Improved. . . .
fMfeseres. fine tends, well improved
w*U beeeftd to snit purchasers.
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if? acree, .well Improved, good water,
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Improved, in fine state of cultivation-*
good bargain.
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ABBEVILLE 00-J?JTY.
160 acres, in cultivation,.
400 sores, in good state cultivation.
COONEE COUNTY.
Center Township.
801 sores, well Improved.
100 acre*, well Improved. .
260 seres, 4 tenant dwellings.
188 seres. ? : . .?.
104 sores, taroom dwelling.
60 sores? ?
178 sores, 7-room and ono 8-room dwell
sores, 2 tenant dwellings.
100 sores, two 8* roo m dwellings.
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% tba People, to encourage nsw Bottler*, and to belp those wlto watVto W
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JOS, J. FRETWEIJi, A?il?irPonp 8. O.
Office over iTamew and Merchant
WAR S'I
Incidents in Career c
One of the most notablo character
istics was his muscular activity, ?
short, thin, wiry mao, weighing only
about 110 pounds, hie movements
were quick and "snappy" even in his
70th year, nod made him a remarkable
example of tho principio that one is
ouly aB otd as one feels. Thc late
Speaker Keed, of Maine, when discus
sing with some of his colleagues tho
ravflges death was making in tho older
membership of congress, once said:
"Now, there's Wheeler sitting yon
der. Tie's getting old, but the Al
mighty could never find bim in one
piaco long enough to put His floger
upon him."
This tells the story of Gen. Wheel
er. He was constantly on the jump;
dil everything nervously and rapidly.
When he arose to speak in the house
where he served as a membor from
Alabama, he invariably said: "I arise
for a moment just to say one word."
It always brought forth a laugh from
his colleagues.
Gen. Wheeler was 62 years old in
tho spring of 1898, when this country
was making hurried preparations for
the inevitable war with Spain. Ho
was a thin little man, with a white
beard and a partly bald head. He
might easily have posed for a portrait
of a Scottish Convenater. Bot he
was one of tho first to offer his servi
ces to the country wben it became ap
parent that a conflict with Spain could
I not be avoided.
; Gen. Wheeler's offer was the sub
jeot of moro than one offioial confer
enoe in Washington at the time.
Some of the veterans of the war were
wondering whether or not "Fighting
Joe" hadbeeu sufficiently reconstruct
ed in the thirty-three years that bsd
elapsed since that war came to an end.
It waB Senator Uushmgu K. Davis, of
Minneapolis, who first came to the
front with a strong endorsement of
the doughty little Southerner. With
sevoral other influential men he eslled
on President McKinley.
"Why, Fm going to appoint him *
general, of course," said the president
the moment the delegation let their
mission be known.
"Fm mighty glad to hear it," said
Senator Davis. "And now I want to
tell you, Mr. President, why I regard
Joe Wheeler as one of the greatest
generals this oountry has ever pro
duoed. Be gave me more tVouble dur
ing the war than any dosen other men
and soared me so that I think it must
have stunted my growth.
? ''Incidentally," continued the sena
tor from Minnesota, "if you want any
'testimony as to Joe Wheelers grit, I
can furnish plenty of it for you.. Be*
fore that war ended I found that he
had chased me pretty much all over
?even States, andi guess if Lee hadn't
?orreudered Joe would have taken my
xoalp, for he was netting closer all tba
time. i
Gen, Wheeler wai; one of the fore*
most Amirieia leaders fa the cam
paign , at Santiago. Wben Shatter
esme, to the cono?usion, after about
two days of intermittent fighting tiona
the lines of the Spanish earthworks,
thet a retreat might be necessary,i it
?ra's Gen. 'Wheeler who stood oat
against it. He waa for sailing into
thai Spaniards with avery available
Kas and his piss prs?*i!#4;
Geb. Wheeler was out well in the
front, ?here be could see .what was
golng.on and direet the firo of his di
vision to the best effect. At last We;
saw" tho thin Une of the enemy begin
to waver. Thc ai t of making war rVas
not now to him, and letting oat a
snoop that could bo heard even above
the din of bsttle, ho started-'toward
lbs weakening point. 4Tba btave men
merged up a hill, flr?ug at random,
raero was no stopping : that fierce
>b.L ge and the raia of bullets that
roared in ob the foe.
That ?as the first real taste of b?
le\that tGen, Wheeler hed had since
,hc days of the; rebellion, and in tba ? !
ixoitemeat of it he mur.fc have for-h
totten jasV where he wa>.?-v?$f
nore be Was leading bli Confederate
lar?d?vilo to , the oharge. He saw
hewaverjag Hoe*!?^^?^^IY^
\?? waviog bis old ccv&lry sabre hef s
lad used, Ja seores of betties, be
rilled: V . . ..'.:.\:
^N?wy at 'eml Give 'em V belli
rvVvegot tho damned yankees on trie
un and we must get avery last ono of
em. follow rael /
The boys did follow the hailos? ind
batiese leader ana ?tba nattle Waa
lab? rle beoame thc idol of the men
?ho fright n?4?r "^^ie"?:*t?:
>f the privates who stuck close to his'
leelsiu that victorious charge who
old Mm a dei*r two later about the
f?^ic error he bad made iu his - eora
aaad^r a charte r that aili. ^ Gear
pelerlij^ai /ba^l^a^
me, and said: :'r- ;>: \,-ry.
Why, that's foray, iv??M
ORIES.
>f Gr en. ?Joe "Wheeler.
must have forgotten just where I
waa."
Geo. Wheeler was thea a major
' general, and yet no ono would have
suspected it from his equipment*
His campaign outfit consisted of an
old BIOUCII hat that had seen years of
service, a blue flannel shirt and a pair
of khaki trousers that had seeu better
days. There ?ras not a ciagle insig
nia of his high rank. A story came
back fr orv the front, while the Ameri
can army was investing Santiago, tell
ing how the then Colonel Roosevelt,
commander of the Hough Riders,
went to see General Wheeler. Roose
velt was direoted to the front and told
that Gen. Wheelor was out there some
plaoe "looking for Spaniards." The
colonel found him up a tall tree with a
battered old field glass glued to his
oyes.
Gen. Joseph Wheeler, with all his
greatness, was one of the most modest
of men. Quiet, reserved and unas
suming, he was five feet six inohes.
Ho weighed only 110 pounds at his
best, but as Speaker Reed onoe said
in the house at Washington, "there's
a fight in every pound of the congress
man from Alabama." He was noth
ing more than a bondie of nerves and
unflagging courage. With the possi
ble exception of Gen. "Job" Stuart,
he was the greatest of all the oavalry
leaders in the army of the Confed
eracy. It was General Wheeler who
made the greater part of the trouble
General Sherman had on his historio
"march to the sea." Tho little Con
federate leader held on to Sherri J a's
army with the tenacity of a bulldog.
His cavalrymen fell on the flanks and
rear of the union forces at the most
unexpected times and placeo, and
harassed them throughout the cam
paign,
In one of his reports later General .
Sherman referred to this harassing
detachment of Confederates aa "that,
batch of, devils under Wheeler.*' But
io the years that followed , the war
these two great leaders ?sst many
times end a strong friendship grew np
between them.
Afc the battle of Shiloh his regiment
and its eommander distinguished
themselves. The regiment waa almost
out to pieces in the*battle, but, then
a colonel, Wheeler, according to tho
official report of General Chambers, ?
his brigade eommander, "bravely
oh arge d at the head of the small re m
nant of hts regiment and the remnant ,
of the Mississippians, bearing the reg
imental oolors aloft." Ia thia charge
two horses were*, abo t u n der bimi j "'Be-1
fore the war was ended six teosa horses
were shofc and killed under him io j
battle. From his valor on this oar '
c asian > be received the nickname .<
of ?'Fighting JoO," which a tuck to 1
him for the remainder of K?i Ufe. :.V 1
lu the war oo rewar ths^ thirty*- *
two of hit staff officer* wera killed' er. J
wonndod while riding hasido Mm in ?
battle, ? Ginara! Wheeler waa wound- |
ed threa times slightly and once pain- |
folly, and bf s saddle '? equipments sod
olothao war* frequently etttoek. }
rocsived his njtoBt ?erious wound in <
1862 ia an engagement near Nashville, J.
On thisll^MillB^I^^^^^^^H
to pi?ces by an exploding shell, his S
aide was killed beside him, and; ho j
another horse; get another aide sud j
oontinuod the, ;fignt>d;Bojt??'f?$ML
100 skirmishes and commanded io I
no^ than m battles.
At the ago ' of 27 his reckless bray
9ry had won for him a major ?enera!*?
Santa Anna's Spur. |
Roanoke, Vs., Feb, 5.-South Caro
linians may be interested to learn thai
a spar once worn by the great Mexican
general, Santa Anna, and later by
Gen. Bcojamin Hager of the Palmet
to State, now hangs upon the wall in
tho library of the roeidcnce of the late
Gol. Frank Huger in this oity. Not
oniy was this spur worn upon the
heels of the three soldiers above
named, but it was also the property
of the immortal Oustor and was fas
tened about his right ankle when he
was killed by tho Red Mon of the
Weat. I
The story of how the spur came j
from the hills 'of the far-away Mont-1
ezumas to the library of a Roanoke 1
home-how it traveled from the heel I
of Mexico's warrior, Santa Anna, to
the heel of Gustev, the dare-devil In
dian fighter, of how it fell into the
possession of Gen. Hager and his son,
Gol. Huger-is as follows:
After the otubborn Santa Anna had
surrendered the Gity of Mexioo to
Gen. Winfield Soott he presented to
tho Amerioan commander the pair of
handsome spurs which he had worn
throughout the struggle. Gen Soott
in turn presented the spurs to his
chief of ordnanoe, Gen.. Benjamin
Huger of South Carolina, father of
the late Col. Frank Huger, and ho
years afterward gave them to his con. j
Col. Frank Huger was a student at
West Point Military Aoademy from
South Carolina at the time young
Castor was attending that institution,
and the two young men became fast
friends. When the war divided the
Northland the South the daehing Hu
ger enlisted in the Confederate ser
vice, while the stalwart Custer cast
his lot ??th the federal forces. The
historio spurs, whioh had many years
previous to the outbreak nt Fort Sum
ter been presented by Gen. Huger to
his son, were carried by the latter in
to the War Between the Sections and
adorned the heels of the young South
Carolinian through many a bloody
fight in that memorable strife, hat at
the battle of Sailor'o creek, not loog
before Appomattox, he was captured
by the Yankee forces, commanded by
his old friend and ?3 oh o ol mate, Gen,
Coster. That night the two soldiers
ysnewed acquaintances. They ato ot
tub same table and slept sn the same
tent, nuder the same/blanket. They
swapped reminiscences and while ex
changing experiences renewed their
former wara feeling fer each otha?.
That night Col. Huger unstrapped tho
pair of spurs from his heels and gave
them to his captor,7 telling him that
he should wear them and return thom
to him after the war was over.
The spur that, now hangs in the
Roanoke home was taken;from the
heal of Caster aa he lay dead upon the
bank of : the Bia Born rlv?r lo the
Block Hille . of the Dakotas ;tit**|?|j
fearful maasaorc ; The story of tho J
awful massacre io s?hieh the yaUant ;
Oueter and all bio mon wero butohered
ls familiar to every ; eobool bpyr^how}
he wat tssBt at the head1 off .*^lar?e.:
foreo of troops ?? Ant ??oa tho Indian
op??oiag; how he was finally surround
ed, and, refusing to surrender, deter
mined *Jfight to dtath; how ene half
breed soo ot wa? the only :'?j?f4B^who
ssfiaptd'from' the leid of carnage to
relate ?;jth? ;: ; ]Matoir^VrJ^f v t^** '
ile.. '-^.ni it ? i& i* JW? ? a# Wjr^i^: v ^4?jwa
that when Custer's body was foand,
khst one of tfea spart rem^ns^ oa his
right hes!. Tho spur , w&e fi?Ally f?V
sar as? io Oc?. '?o^?^;?h?^?^;#
?wtatiAv;.., ^\r>jOMHr*
ThetHhoi^ by
|^r>:a^7^
r?ndi?jz lt where it bangs today
acuta suffering of a malady affecrog
the heart which was caused by the
great nervous shook to which tho vis
ion subjected her. . .. " * . \ '
Mrs. Ncwhall's maiden name was
Mary King. She was bora in Oinoi
nati. Her father was Capt. Edward
A. King, of the Regular Army, and
her mother was Sarah M. King.
When tho Civil War broke out Capt.
King went to thc front. He was a
brave and gallant young soldier and
won distinction in tho norvic? of the
Union in thc etruggglo between the
North and South. \
Hts wife and children were living in
Ohio in the war time. From Cincin
nati they went to Dayton, in that
State, wfcere they resided for many
years. Letters carno to them fre
quently from the husband and father,
telling them of bis daily doings on
field and in camp. The letters always
were full of hope and good cheer, but
they did not serve to dispel the cloud
that hung over the home wherein his
loved ones waited with heavy, aching,
anxious hearts for his?return from the
oruol war.
Mary King was a singularly bright,
winsome, sensitive girl, and between
her and the soldier-father there ex
isted the strongest, tenderest ties of
affection. The daughter was passion
I ately fond of her father? cherishing
for him a deeper, warmer love than,
daughters commonly cherish for their
fathers, and the dangers to whioh he
was exposed were a source of con
stant grief and fearful anxiety to her.
For her there was no peace of mind,
I nor oould be any so long as the war
j should continue. Every day. was to
her a day of gloomy forebodings.
Every night was a night of brooding,
anxious unrest. IL was feared that
she would suffer a complete nervous
collapse as a result of the aoute men
tal strain ?0 whioh ehe was subjeot
ed. .
One day, after a restless, sleepless
night, she was at her home' with
other members'of the, family when she
sprang from her oh air, pale and trem
bling, and cried:
I "Look, look! My .father baa been
killed]"
? With these worde eba fell uhe?n
ooioua to tho floor. ?he waa picked
j up and carried to ber bed, and a pby .
I alelan waa summo?ed. , When abe waa ?
I restored to consciousness she said that
ber father waa dead and described
minutely the circumstances of his
I death while in battle. I
She waa told that ber father waa;
pot dead, that she bad been Ul and
bad imagined that be had been killel;
Every possible effort waa made by
members of tho family and hor phy
sician to quiet ber fears, to dispel the
^y^att^l^Ptll^ll abe appeared to
be suffering. But abe elong tena
oiotisiy io p| belief that| ber father
; wes d.-i d-that he had mot bis death
preoibt ly as t>he had witnessed it
.ber vision.
:;;;..lu7i'tbio';a f hows the family re
oe?ted word 1 that Captain ?log wa?
dead. .
? .. A few deya> later a letter: oarne ; M>
the - ;-?^?J^triqk?tt; 'fwifet..; telling V jn?r;
when and how her husband had met |
bia deatb. Ha bsd been shot dead at
tte moment hi? dau^bt?v, r^t and
st enabling, ^d^pruog*wat J^ebeir
and oriea??&ao:k> s ib'oki^?^llal^lti.
baa baan killed!!" And be W'i
?a death precisely as bis ^oft
mmM y wm
trageaiai, . ita |W^v^n^?t?^
finally came, .to % oleae, ,JB^ :M
'King neve?completely recovered &
ibo eruct hurt it bad ?jiveh-l
Lieut. (afterward* oapMn) L W.
Perrio, ordnance officer at Fort Moul
trie.
i was ordered to load with a perena
sion shell aod to fiVe at Battery
Gregg. The first shell exploded aod
the surface of the ground for a spaoe
apparently five feet, or more in diam- '
eter, appeared to be on fire. Aston?
ished, bewildered, I asked Perrin
whether he had noticed i;.
"Were you not informed? We are
practicing with Greek fire," he rc
plied or words to that effect. .
The second shell did not explode.
The third exploded and the fire burn
ed brighter and longer than before. It
was a perfect suooeas, but I was truly
thankful when informed that the au
thorities bad decided not to make usc
of it, as I had no desire to be sprink
led with or to pour ' ouch aa
inextinguishable fluid cs any one.
Vincent F. Martin.
Walhalla, 8. C., Jan. 27, 1900.
mm i mm-?
Patriotic Priest.
The Rev. Father Matthew O" Keefe,
pastor of the Church of the Immacu
late Conception at Towson, near Bal
timore, died.last Sunday. He waa a
chaplain of Geo. Mahone'a Brigade ia
the Confederate army end a warm
personal friend of Jefferson Davis
ahd Robert E. Lee. He was a mem
ber of the ' Legion of Honor of;
France, and was born at Waterford,
ireland, in 1828. During the war
Father O' Keefe was an ardent Coo
federate. He was a daily visitor to
Mr. Davis during his imprisonment st
Fcrtress '.Monroe.-; During the war,
Gen. Butler, who was on the outskirts
of Baltimore, sent the following note
to Father O'Keefe:
'Gen. Battier sends his compli
menta to Father O'Keefe and desires
to know if he prays for the Federal j
authorities at the Vesper Services." |
Father O'Keefe wrote hie reply oil
the back of Butler's note as follows:
"Father O'Keejfy does not r?turo ?
his compliments to Gen. Butler. I
do not pray for thp Federal authorities ;
at the Vesper services, "nor do I in-*
tend to do so. Furthermore, I caret '
heard of such a thing." '
Good for Father O* Keefe ! He j
?as buried h his Confederate nai?j
form. May he rest inpeace. \?7
.. '. .in, i? i an ; .; ' '
-- It frequently happens that rv
mah who was' proud of a man as e
is ashamed of him as her husband.